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What is it like starting up Southeast Asia’s first fashion and #fashtech incubation programme? DesignSingapore scholar Jon Max Goh, programme manager at The Bridge Fashion Incubator, shares candidly about his hopes for the programme and the grunt work that needs…
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Did you know that Kat Holmes, author and Director of UX at Google, throws axes as a form of stress-relief? When she was living in Seattle, she started doing axe-throwing, and she’s grown to be quite the “Axe-pert”. Kat Holmes…
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Feature Film Production Designer Nelson Coates, who recently worked on the movie Crazy Rich Asians, shared with us what it’s like in the world of production design. Nelson Coates was one of the speakers at the Brainstorm Design 2019 conference,…
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Did you know that Daan Roosegaarde, artist, designer, and innovator, wants to be an astronaut? Daan Roosegaarde was one of the speakers at the Brainstorm Design 2019 conference, and DesignSingapore spoke with him while he was in Singapore. Check out the…
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Think UX is important in this experience economy? Then pay attention to UX writing. Pamela Ho finds out from the experts how words can affect the way we experience design and who can become a UX writer. At design studio…
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A year ago, during a robust debate on whether Design Thinking was overrated at the inaugural Brainstorm Design conference, then Executive Director of DesignSingapore Council Agnes Kwek shared her idea of a “Design Being”. Agnes, who is now Design Ambassador for Singapore…
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What does a design ambassador really do? Are her days filled with parties, wine and cheese? We find out from Design Ambassador Agnes Kwek who assumed her new role on 1 October 2018 in Paris, France on what she does…
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Justin Zhuang has a little obsession with the past – our design past, specifically. The founder of the nascent Singapore Design Archives began collecting design objects and ephemera some years ago when he was commissioned to write a book on…